Who was most edgy person in the history?
>>1459219
(You)
Nechayev
What are some entry level books on Rome, preferably going as far as the foundation of the kingdom?
I want to really get into this, my knowledge of Rome is really sporadic and superficial
>>1459097
I'd also very much like that, but I don't think there's anything substantial out there. Unless you want to get into the mythological foundation, that's also interesting.
Gibbon is essential, and a much better read than most
For a really basic book, but one that will give you "the gist" read Ancient Rome - Simon Baker
Then you can read more specific works, primary sources or whatever.
Read Livy
>>1459181
He's certainly not essential. He has a lot of silly memes as well.
Sure, read him, but don't take it as the platinum standard up-to-date history.
I'm on vacation in Greece right now and all of the males have Danny Devito features. I'm honestly baffled how everyone looks like Danny Devito.
Did ancient greeks all look like Danny Devito.
"Whoops, oh, I dropped my monster boogeyman that I use for my magnum debt."
Post the sight OP
"I'm the Spartan man! I throw weak babies all over the ring! And then, I start eating Persians."
"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"
So history fags, is our today's goods (computers, mircowaves, advanced heating, jets etc) worth the bloodshed of hundreds of million innocent people?
If you could, would you trade the discovering of our technology today for the power to stop wars such World war 2 from happening?
This is the most retarded thing I heard today
The wars and suffering will be forgotten in a few generations, while the technology will propel us ever forward, into newer and better wars.
So, no.
> It's time to choose the ally for an Albania...
> Let's go with China! Yeah, that seems legit.
Can someone explain me this meme.
Peiking duck is very delicous
Easy to bribe, thought to be good proxy agents for the Chinese intel service, unfortunately they kept getting picked up because they would turn up in London in 50's suits and get run over by cars.
>>1458998
Hohxa ditched the USSR and (obviously) couldn't approach the West like Tito because Albanian policies were literally North Korea-tier. Mao didn't like the USSR and so he proved to be a natural ally for Hohxa.
Is he right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3GfCmbPDN0
>>1458740
Materialism in general makes people selfish. Capitalists and socialists are two sides of the same coin.
>PragerU
Stop posting these, my Jewgle account keeps recommending me videos with titles like 'All Modern Art is Garbage' and 'Be A Man: Get Married'
>>1458752
I'm too afraid to go to Youtube links here because you'll inevitably get led to "GAS THE KIKES RACE WAR NOW" and "proof blacks are inferior, white power is the answer" videos, and I don't want recommendations based off that. Thanks for warning us about an even worse scourge: Prager shit.
I think I got a pretty good picture of Japan from the Sengoku period onwards.
But my knowledge is pretty spotty before that. So... can we have an ancient japan thread? Everything about japan up until the warring states, although you can talk about how the warring states period came to happen and how the Samurai became a thing in the first place.
Japanese society, religion, government, art, weapons, philosophy, armor, crafts. All that cool stuff.
>>1458728
Well you see, Japan used to be full of ONI (Japanese for Demons) who basically roamed Japan killing and raping whoever and whatever it saw. Then powerful Samurai showed up with Katanas and chased them back to the forests and started building the foundation for the entire Eastern Hemisphere.
Million years ago, Japan was inhabited by the aboriginals, ancestors of the Ainu and Ryukyu peoples, then the Yamato (korean colonists) came and murdered and raped the natives and through treachery stole their land
Then later they made up tales of they righteously drove away the oni (rude word for "natives") and created the eternal empire of Nippon (nippon for Japans), but as it's in the nature of koreans to hate other koreans, they soon devolved to endless infighting and civil war
>>1458792
>Million years ago, Japan was inhabited by the aboriginals, ancestors of the Ainu and Ryukyu peoples
Huh, I thought Ryukyu was forged by the same migrations that came came from Korea.
I guess I assumed that the mainland Japanese became dominated by the Yamato tribe, but the southern Islands like Okinawa were left to develop their own cultures related to but distinct from the Yamato, and each other.
Do I need to know anything else about Japan or does this video explain it all?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o
What a silly question.
>>1458715
Nah that vid pretty much covers everything
It depends on if you care about Japanese history or not.
Just an aside here, I fucking love this board, and you posters. Out of all 4chans, this board is the most of them all.
I love you, sweet things.
Not exactly obscure but he is never discussed on /his/. Savonarola did nothing wrong.
>>1458723
>Savonarola did nothing wrong
He was a failure as a leader. He could never make Florence great again.
Not much to discuss, but I really like Vesalius.
He reminds me of a time when Science wasn't a tedious chore.
why the romans were never able to conquer germania? are germans really just that great at fighting?
Because it wasn't worth the effort.
Everyone forgets that the Romans kicked the Germans' asses right after Teutoburg and then went home.
>>1458609
the conditions sucked perfectly. there wasn't the population density to establish stable roman cities and hubs, but there was enough population density to have millions of angry dungmonkeys always fighting you. keeping germania out of the empire is one thing, but conquoring, keeping it, and making them all roman citizens was a zero ROI venture.
https://youtu.be/d39FBRxBM8k
>>1458609
Because the cost of conquest was massively disproportionate to the value of the territory
>>1458539
I really wanna bang a sacred prostitute
>ywn be Hadrian's boipucci :[
Relaxing with a twink soldier after a battle
>the Romans take a hands off approach and pretty much let the Jews do whatever as long as they pay taxes
>don't even station any legions there
>even give the Jews special treatment and exempt them from worshipping Roman gods or serving in the military
>"abloo bloo the romans are mean"
>chimp out and start several wars
>get your holy city and temple destroyed and your people scattered across the face of the earth
What the fuck was the Jews' problem.
Was it autism?
>>1458478
>>don't even station any legions there
that's always the best strategy
Jerusalem will rebel anyway regardless
so you take your units outside and camp outside the city
when they rebel on the next turn you invade them and cut down population to reasonable number so they remain loyal for some 5 turns. Rinse and repeat.
It helps to keep a breach in the Jerusalem's wall and not fix it so you can enter the city faster.
The children of Israel are fervently loyal to their spiritual and cultural identity. It's worth their own blood and is beyond walls and temples. They are the temples of Yahweh.
>most
>serene
>republic
>doge
Jesus that fucking meme is stale
Venetians were cringy as fuck
>>1458418
>serene
This doesn't mean relaxed, it just means it has no feudal overlord. Genoa and San Marino were / are also serene republics.
Name one more serene republic.
The League of Nations.
Did it do ANYTHING right?
What (if anything) could it have done to prevent Italian/Japanese/German aggression?
>>1458348
They gave them a very stern warning, but they had no army for themselves and so the Japs just left, the Italians just ignored them and then left, and the same with the Germans.
Does the UN do anything?
Nope.
All these unions are bullshit because individual desires and power will always trump the original desire for peace.
>>1459516
League of nations chum, not the UN
No Egyptian pagan Egypt.
No Zalmoxism.
No Druidism.
No diverse Arabian and middle-eastern pantheons.
Monotheism obliterated everything.
At least we still got Shinto.
So I don't exist? Strange, always though I did.
What is Hinduism
>>1458230
Friendly reminder this is all Plato's fault